While your game's menu strikes me as retro, there were quite a few games at the time that had menus like that. The most obvious one is still the skill system, which is exactly the way Shining Soul 2 was.
I used to be one of the admins of the largest GBA fans bbs in China, and I've written some walkthrough such as finding hidden rooms, strange items dropped by boss
Reminds me of playing Bright Souls 2 when I was a kid. One question though, the player animation seems unusually slow, is it because it's part updateFrame() and part update()?
